See our apricots

Not to be out done, I ventured out with the camera in search of fruit forming on our trees and.........WALLAH !!.......there they were, some tiny apricots. Now we have to try and out smart the birds, and pray that the summer is milder than the last one, when all the fruit was cooked while still half grown.
One thing for sure, the Veggie Gnome can take better photos than me, mine are always out of focus.

yellow by accident

Some more flowers from my garden. I wouldn't normally plant yellow flowers, its not a favourite colour here. All of these dutch irises were supposed to be blue and as you can see, I was lucky to get one that was.


















This is another clump of iris, unfortunately the colour is rather washed out because of the bright sunshine when this picture was taken

Today the isa brown chicks are 5 weeks old and its their BIG DAY ! This is the day they move out of the nursery and into the "big kid's bed" They will spend 2 weeks in here before the door is opened and they have their first experience of the big wide world. Note how the Gnome's chicks are still being bad and are made to stand in the corner?



Here they are in Big kids bed.

A beautiful spring day today, my friend Dina's birthday and to celebrate we went to Angaston for lunch. Set in picturesque grounds on Valley Rd. is "The Community Store and Kitchen" The first picture is of Manchurian Pear blossom, absolutely gorgeous !














2nd. is what I think is called may flower, I like white flowers.











A picture of the main building






A view from our table.

Garden bits and pieces

First here are some lovely lilliums, given to me by some guests that came to lunch on Saturday. Lovely day, and lovely company.














A snow gum tree about to burst into flower


















Pussy willow


















Daffodils growing amongst the blackberry, must try to do something about that this summer!!

Blossom

A beautiful weeping cherry tree, such a pity the flowers last only a couple of days. Usually what happens is, a strong wind comes along and blows the blooms off, right at the time when it looks its best.


For some of these pictures I had to lay on my back, under the tree, and those who know me will realise just how hard that was. (not the down, but the getting up bit!)

4 weeks old

Here they are, now 4 weeks old. The little blighters wont stay still enough to have a clear picture taken! Or ...... maybe its this old chook, cant hold the camera still enough. Notice though, there is still one bad, mad one standing in the corner.